Paraguay

The year 2020 has been significantly marked by the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing innumerable delays in the works and in all processes in general. As a result of the declaration of a health emergency by the government due to COVID-19, and to mitigate its effects, it has been decided to intervene from the two programmes in execution. Under the Programme for solutions for the supply of drinking water and sanitation in the Western Region or Chaco and intermediate cities in the Eastern Region of Paraguay, wells are being drilled and elevated tanks are being installed in San Juan Bautista, Tobatí, Caacupé and Horqueta, and in the Chaco, the aqueduct will be extended to the town of Mariscal Estigarribia.

Within the Project for the construction of drinking water and sanitation systems in small towns and rural and indigenous communities in Paraguay, more than $3m of FONRPODE has been redirected to the Emergency Plan to support hospitals and health facilities with water and sanitation and hand washing stations, the purchase of water trucks and storage tanks and the construction of systems in 31 rural communities and the repair of another 69 systems.

In this context of “water and sanitation support to hospitals and health centres”, the system for the Hospital de Clínicas in Asunción was inaugurated on 10 July.